Achloa Erichson, 1840

Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Megataxa 12 (1), pp. 104-175 : 134

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Achloa Erichson, 1840 View in CoL

[6 species].

Type species Achloa caffra Erichson, 1840 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Lacroix (1999b).

Nanarcta Blanchard, 1851 View in CoL .

Type species Nanarcta vulpecula Blanchard, 1851 View in CoL (= Achloa helvola Erichson, 1840 View in CoL ), by monotypy.

Synonymy by Burmeister (1855).

References

Blanchard, C. E. (1851) Catalogue des collections entomologiques du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Paris. Classe des Insectes, Ordre des Coleopteres I. Gide et Baudry, Paris, France, pp. 129-240.

Burmeister, H. C. C. (1855) Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia, Phyllophaga, Chaenochela. Volume 4. Part 2. T. C. F. Enslin, Berlin, Germany, x + 569 pp.

Erichson, W. F. (1840) Die Pachypoden, eine kleine Gruppe aus der Familie der Melolonthen. In: Entomographien, Untersuchungen in dem Gebiete der Entomologie mit besonderer Benutzung der Konigl. Sammlung in Berlin. Volume 1. Morin, Berlin, Germany, pp. 29-43. https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173879

Lacroix, M. (1999 b) Contribution a la connaissance des Pachydeminae africains, II Nouveaux genres et nouvelles especes. Definition des caracteres generiques pour la region afrotropicale (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Melolonthidae). Coleopteres, 5, 43-83.